The University of Olivet recognized the best of its student body at the annual Honors Convocation held Wednesday, April 13 in the college’s Mott Auditorium.
The following students were recognized for their scholastic achievements in the 2015-16 academic year:
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Outstanding Sophomore Award
Krystin Verran
Outstanding Junior Award
ReBekah McDaniel
Outstanding Senior Award
Allison Martin
Insurance and Risk Management Awards
Freshman – Megan Keathley
Sophomore – Sara Line
Junior – AJ Merfeld
Senior – Kyle Ranney
Charles M. Trubac Outstanding IRM Student Award
Hailey Willett
Outstanding Financial Planning Students
Trent Strang & Connor Bauserman
HEALTH AND HUMAN PERFORMANCE
All-Scholar Performance Team
Taylor Molnar, Leeza Donald, Ashlee Roussey,
Jillian Nickels, Aaron Gumpert, Nicole Zerfas,
Brooks Smith & Colleen Klimek
Debra Tighe Memorial Award
Brooke Kastamo, Alecia Dennis & Bailey Tyler
Jare Klein Excellence Award
Earl Bryant &Talen Schallhorn
ATHLETICS
Walter B. Sprandel Athletic/Scholastic Achievement Award
Andrew Benkovsky
Linda Hoover Athletic/Scholastic Achievement Award
Brooke Kastamo
HUMANITIES
Leo T. Hendrick Prize in Creative Writing
LeeAnne Wonser
The Sarah Ann Maas Memorial Award
Dominique Giroux
Laura Berghorst-Verplank
Jacob Kinney
Antoinette Green Prize in English
LeeAnne Wonser
Excellence in English Award
Jessica Doster
Dr. Wolfgang Mieder Foreign Language Scholarship
Amber Hamad
James R. Donohue Award in Arts and Communication
Mitchell Galloway
Douglas and Blanche Gallery Scholarship in Journalism
Brian Freiberger
Media Prize
Hayley Cooper & Corey Hricovsky
MATH AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Mathematics Award
Jarred Scheese
Computer Science Award
Carlos Barajas & Korey Hershock
NATURAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES
ACS Outstanding Graduating Student in the Chemical Sciences
Zach Kitzmiller
Fred Gruen Chemistry Assistantship
Emma Cole & Madison Carr
Outstanding Senior in Science Award
Anna Davis
Edward P. Speare Biology Scholarship
Emily Cooper & McKenze Rogers
Richard C. Fleming Ecology and Field Biology Prize
Andrew Arras
Rasmussen-Reames Pre-Medical Scholarship
Jennifer Elliston & Dallie Flower
David Cutler ’65 Fellowship
Julie Crone
MUSIC PROGRAM
Chorister of the Year
Zachary Nash
Instrumentalist of the Year
Emily Nelson
Thelma Pryor Music Scholarship
Taylor Thorn
Ivis Larson Carlson Music Scholarship
Zachary Nash & Amanda Igl
Larida and Helmer Petersen Music Scholarship
Zachary Nash
Samuel Robinson Music Scholarship
Samantha Lewis
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Outstanding Achievement in Criminal Justice
Freshman – Aaron Bush
Sophomore – Nathan Weeks
Junior – Crystal Compson
Senior – Morgan West
William Burns Award
Brianna Moore & Nicholas Africano
Outstanding Achievement Sociology/Anthropology
Devin Blue and Luke Hetke
Outstanding Achievement in Psychology
Dallas James
VISUAL ARTS
Justus W. Cohoe Art Scholarship and Evelyn Gray Anderson Memorial Workshop and Travel Scholarship
Cassandra Brown
Visual Arts Department Honors
Daniel Neugent & Patrick Donovan
OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS
Ellyn ’36 & Lane ’40 Breidenstein Endowed Alumni Council Scholarship
Madeline Maxwell
David C. Pywell ’69 Memorial Alumni Council Scholarship
Jennifer Elliston & Dallie Flower
Rev. Grafton ’37 & Ruth ’38 Thomas Alumni Council Scholarship
Dominique Giroux
Joan Johnson Wagner ’45 Alumni Council Scholarship
Nicole Gilbert
William Buchanan Award
Victoria Mellino
Jim Coleman Prize
Meghan Eldred
Lenora Belle Hazard Memorial Award
Taylor Thorn
COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY AWARDS
Leadership in Service and Service Learning Award
Casey Eldridge
Women’s Board Scholarship Recipients
Ryan Anderson
Bailey Tyler
Bruce Baker
Isabelle Leon
Julianna Carter
Trenton Monroe
Dallie Flower
Taylor Thorn
Nicole Gilbert
OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
Donald A. Morris Award – Top 5 Graduates (Graduate and their most influential professor)
Lucia McNally & Janine Peters
Andrew Pabst & Regina Armstrong, Ph.D.
Jarred Scheese & Janine Peters
Traci Smith & John Homer, Ph.D.
Hailey Willett & Jeremy Duby
DOCTORS GORTON AND PEGGY RIETHMILLER AWARDS
Excellence in Teaching
Kirk Hendershott-Kraetzer, Ph.D.
Excellence in Advising
Clair Stevens ’80, J.D.
Excellence in Scholarship
Kirk Hendershott-Kraetzer, Ph.D.
Outstanding Administrator
Frank Schumacher
Outstanding Adjunct Instructor
James Armstrong